As part of efforts to address the canker of illegal fishing methods and discourage the use of illegal fishing nets on Ghana’s waters, the fisheries commission has destroyed illegal nets worth about three million Ghana cedis at the Tema landfill site. The Commission destroyed about 30 trolley nets and about two hundred and fifty mono-filament … Read more
Fishermen on the coast of the Mfantseman Municipality in the Central Region, have had their canoes other fishing equipment destroyed following a strong tidal waves that swept through the area on Saturday night. The waves affected Ankaful, a suburb of Saltpond, Nankesedo, Kormantse, Abandze and Anomabo. One fisherman from Saltpond was reportedly injured while trying to … Read more
In Morocco’s northern port city of Al-Hoceima, fishermen are clamouring for state support for a struggling sector which they say is under attack from dolphins. In the harbour, fishermen can often be seen mending nets they claim have been destroyed by a type of dolphin they have dubbed El Negro, or “the Black One” in … Read more
The ADB Bank Limited has donated bundles of fishing nets and twines worth GH¢100,000 to fishermen who lost their fishing gears when tidal waves hit the country’s coastlines on September 4, this year. The fishermen had their fishing gears including outboard motors, fishing nets, ropes, canoes and boats damaged by the tidal waves. Fishers from … Read more